Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Healios Limited
- Value
- £499,863.12
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 014145-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Mar 2025
- Published10 Apr 2025Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) requires a single contract with Healios Ltd in line with a time-limited initiative by Welsh Government to help reduce waiting times to accessing a diagnostic assessment of autism for children and young people. The service will provide key outcomes for the Health Board in terms of Improving Waiting Times for Children’s Neurodevelopmental Service. Subsequently improving the health and wellbeing of Future Generations through earlier identification of neuro-divergence and subsequent support needs. Assessing Autism requires a highly specialist skill set, and delivery partners must adhere to applying the following key principles: - Risk assessment to include risk of harm to service user, or service user’s risk to others - Risk management plan - Multidisciplinary team approach - Childhood development history - Clinical interview with informant - Clinical Interview with individual - Observation Assessment - Obtain School/College information - Use of a…
About the supplier
Healios Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08459279).